Grateful to have been that kid whos parents, while not wealthy, worked hard and spent some of that money on games for us boys a few times a year. We didn't need good school results or to do chores just something to put smiles on our faces. Thanks mum and dad.
I rarely got many games as a kid since my family didnt have much money. I made a list of what I wanted over the years, then bought them all when I actually had money.
I'm one of those kids who got what they wanted most of the time. I got a Sega CD, Nintendo 64 etc. But I think one thing that was on my list was a Virtual Boy. We were at Kaybee Toys and they were clearanced down to $25 and I asked my mom for it and she said no :/ I eventually got one and it's just as awesome as I remember.
My folks spoiled me pretty good. I remember they went on vacation to Las Vegas without me and instead of bringing back tacky souvenirs I got 4 NES games. Batman, Simon's Quest, Godzilla, and Friday the 13th. Some people might scoff at the quality of some of those titles, but I played and finished all of them. Great times.
I was always jealous of the kids who had birthdays in May/June because they would get a couple new games right as summer vacation started and would be gaming it up. I on the other hand usually blew through all my Christmas/Birthday money by then and would be stuck renting games for $6 a pop (usually the good games were always out of stock).
Ikr lol. My birthday is in early August, which in my state usually meant my birthday was right around school starting. Many times it was the official first day
Also very well timed as my youngest daughter’s birthday is tomorrow and she’s going to get her first ever video game - Animal Crossing New Horizon. Hope and expect she’ll treasure the memory of that for life.
I was one of those kids and... In reality it wasn't that bad. It meant I could get more presents in a short time, usually a game that I ended up loved and then something else (usually Lego related) :D
My youngest son was born December 27th... but he's autistics and non-verbal, and he's as happy as can be the moment you hand him a $3 hotwheels car. We get him a lot more presents than than on his birthday, but honestly he spends the whole day enjoying the very first toy (usually a car) that he opens.
@@will9357 Same as my little brother, except he's verbal. He was born on December 20th and he loves to play mario games, (especially the original). He's in Kindergarten and he could get to world 5 by himself! (With shortcuts) It's pretty sweet to hear your son loves hotwheels. I used to collect the toys, but unfortunately sold them in a garage sale.
@@antusFireNova You are lucky, if I was born around Christmas I would've gotten only 1 game, and probably would've had to beg my grandparents for more (since the only time I got a new game was my B-day or Christmas). It sounds like you had a fun time during Christmas at least. (any Lego building was fun to get :D)
Pikmin and Luigi’s Mansion. They were the only GameCube games I wanted as a kid but my parents did not want to buy the console. Somehow I did not realize that the Wii I had was backwards compatible. I’m still looking for those games today.
Just wanted to give you some love from over here in England. I watch most retro gaming channels but I think yours at the moment is the most unique, interesting and relatable. Also, you’re genuinely funny mate 👍
When I was a kid, my mom wouldn’t let me buy Castlevania 2 for Gameboy because she thought it was satanic. She saw the cover art and read the back of the package... It was a crushing feeling at that time.
Over 5K subs now, congrats man! People are catching on to your channel. You deserve it Bird! Anyway, THE game I wanted as a kid was Illusion of Time on the SNES. Didn't get it for the longest time, rented it many times until I got a PS1 and THEN I find a second hand copy for $30 after I relegated the SNES to "too old". It still sits in a box at my Mothers house along with so many other SNES and NES games. Damn I wish she would let me have them all for my collection.
My brother came back from a friends house and talked about how he played Chibi Robo for the GameCube and how much he loved it. I still haven’t played it, but hopefully the price goes down someday. :P
The absolute truth!! My childhood sounds just like yours. You felt like you won the lottery getting a can of pop from the store. But those birthdays and Christmas holidays wow!!
As a kid and into my 20s, I never really had many games. I don't think I ever had more than 10 at a time. But, that really made me enjoy what I had. There was no backlog then.
Yep we had an SNES and only I think 10 games. Gameboy the same. These a little longer an there but with my brother together I think around 40 games... But everybody had games the other didn't like.
I can't think of any games I wanted but never got. Two games that I really wanted but took me forever to find was Mega Man 2 for the NES and Super Mario RPG. This was the days before ebay so you had to actually pick up the phone, call the game store, and (gasp) actually talk to someone.
I wanted to get Rule of Rose as a teenager, but sadly I was a little too young and my mom said "When you grow up you'll get it". Now look at the price on ebay and your wallet is going to scream lol.
Wow this takes me back! We had a mom and pop video store in our town and didnt get a Blockbuster til the 360/PS3 era. Around 7 or 8 years old I was allowed to rent games with my allowance. Our local store was the same way, 1 copy of each game, so anything new, you may not get to play for months unless birthday or Christmas was near and I could ask for it. If it was a hot new game, you could count on no one to return it the day they were supposed to, and it was a headache most of the time. But still great memories none the less.
I saw screenshots for Doki! Doki! Yuuenchi in a magazine when I was 8. It had an Western title in the book (Crazy Crazy Amusement Park or something). I wanted that game for years, and searched for it hard as an adult. I had no idea what it was called, and only knew there was a character who kicked soccer balls at enemies. Needless to say, the search took forever with that limited memory. I finally found it recently. It never actually came to the US so I had to get the Famicom cart. In all of my days as a retro gamer, the moment I was able to finally play that game was probably the best.
The primary game I wanted was Secret of Mana. My older brother (who lived on his own) had it, and I absolutely loved playing the game when I visited him. I asked for the game for birthdays and Christmases year after year, but the game was notoriously rare at that point, so it was never found. Around 2010, I found a CIB near-mint copy of it in a second-hand shop for 35 bucks. You better believe I jumped on that. Honorable mention goes to Chrono Trigger, but I worked my butt off as a kid to earn some extra cash and bought my own copy of it in 1997.
From NES-era one game comes to mind: Bubble Bobble, I loved that game and it was usually available in rental stores (I live in Finland, northern Europe, btw) but being an old release even at that time... I don't know... about 1990, we never found any on the stores to buy. It was more of a problem of availability more than lack of money to purchase it. Another story is related to so-called "console wars"... me and my buddy in school didn't have that. I owned SNES and he had Megadrive (Europe, remember?). We were both huge ice hockey fans when we were about 12-16 years old (side note: Finland is a three time World Cup Champion plus lots of success in other tournaments like Olympics and U18 & U20 championships!) But back to games: I played my Marios and Zeldas at SNES but when we were playing hockey game, we always turned on Megadrive's version of NHL. It was just so much smoother that I never bothered to even buy any of those on my SNES. I borrowed an SNES-version of NHL '95 from another buddy from time to time but never really wanted to own it... despite it being a solid game in it's own right.
Growing up I only got to own Nintendo handhelds and so I missed out on a lot of games on the GameCube. I also happen to be a lifelong Pokemon fan and played every mainline game in the series but I never got a chance to play the GameCube ones. However recently I finally got my hands on a copy of Colosseum and completed it for the first time. It was basically a dream come true since I had wanted to play it for 15 plus years. My happiness is immeasurable and my day is made.
Yoshi’s Island on the SNES for me! I remember looking at the box art in a local shop but it never reduced in price and was always £49.99. I finally got it and it’s still probably one of my favourite gaming memories. In my late thirties and I still play it to this day
I lived in a big house with extended family, plenty of them worked and our folks made certain I would too. Plus they tossed us a coin every now and then. When I moved in with them actually the first thing they did was show me how and where to recycle cans! I was shocked at how much money could be made from doing that alone, at the time. So there were plenty of odd jobs (snow shoveling, leaf raking and so on), summer jobs, birthdays and moneys between us. I didn’t own every game I played (I was the sole owner of the under powered and unimpressive Game Boy in my house hold! Ha!) but I didn’t miss a thing until I got older and moved out. Our tastes would stay the same but the fluidity of content sharing would get lost. I definitely missed out on a lot of gen 6 and up games as an adult! Great Stuff! As always!
Easy, i wanted little Samson, and then the price jump. Update: I stand corrected from my last comment. It was 3 days, rather than a week you would hit 5k, congrats!
I loved the story about the two kids chasing after Majora's Mask! I rented games a ton as a kid because I only got them once or twice a year like you! Thankfully our Marsh Supermarket always kept extra copies of some of the popular games and I remember them eventually having a ton of Super Mario Brothers 3 copies since it was such a megahit.
Funny you mentioned majoras mask cus that was the first thing that came to mind for me. It was always rented out at my blockbuster too, managed to get my hands on it once and was just getting into it when it came time to return it. I begged my parents to just buy it for me but they would not 😔 Of course I own it now but I can’t help but feel like I would have appreciated having it more back then
As far as video games, definitely remember GTA Vice City being high on my list of doomed hopefuls when I was around 10. But I'll go for an even stronger reaction I always felt whenever my mom actually wandered into the games section at Wal-Mart with me in tow. Peering through those glass displays, behind the big shiny keyhole locks just to see a row of marvelous Gameboy Color colors was so tempting. Like picking out electronic ice cream flavors. And I actually had the purple transparent GBC, but always preferred the look of plastic on the solid color ones (the lime one just popped). To this day I love the look and feel of a GBC, and even the packaging. Backlight be damned
I didn't know about video games untill i was 8. Mainly due to me just playing outside alot and never got to see the tv as much. I remember around 1997 that i just randomly gotten an nes. I was hooked on mario bros 3. So i was very late in the gaming world back then, i missed out on a ton of things.
@05:20 : i know i was the minority , but as a kid(13-14) i loved going to my friend's house and just watch him play videogames on a DOS PC. Lemmings ,Double Dragon , Sensible Soccer , Prince of Persia , Rick Dangerous ,Prehistoric , Blues Brothers , Titus the Fox and many more. *I never felt the need to play those games myself* (perhaps that's because my friend was so good while playing them and i couldn't play as well as he did) and each time my friend was promting me to sit and play , usually ,after few minutes i was telling him to sit back and play !! I loved to just sit and watch him playing those games !! these were my best hours of the day back then !!
I have never seen, or heard anything as crazy as what you saw those kids do in the rental store. Sounds like they really needed to chill, but being kids, of course not lol.
Congrats on 5K! Already making them moves up to 6K. There were tons of NES games I wanted and never got, but the first Zelda was one that stands out. I got Zelda II for Xmas one year instead of the first one because I had beaten it once (borrowed from a friend), so my mom thought the sequel would be nice.... I appreciated her actually thinking about games, but damn I was crying on the inside. I know there are Zelda II fans out there, but damn... when you want to play the original, Zelda II does not quench the thirst.
I was able to get basically all I asked for, but had to wait until my birthday and Christmas. I remember a game in my Easter basket maybe twice. Renting games was a different story. I remember being able to rent games twice. Other than that I was told I had to wait. I guess renting was extra money they didn't want to spend. Honestly, I'm more bummed out now looking back at games I never knew about growing up in the 80s and 90s.
@@RetroBirdGaming I did get a lot less than I may make it sound like I got yes. But I got most of what I knew I'd enjoy. I was happy enough with that. A couple I wish I knew about are Super Double Dragon and TMNT 4.
TMNT 3 the Manhattan project on the NES. One of my best friends at the time had an nes (I had a genesis) and we used to rent it all the time, we were probably 5-6 years old. When I was 12 or 13 I saved up my money and bought a used nes and a copy of that game at funcoland. That was a great day. Great video, just wanted to mention that even though there were plenty of games I wanted when I was younger, those were special times back in the day where I’d go to a friends house and enjoy the games they had and vice versa. We would always be excited when either of us got something new, it was like a shared game collection.
Great video again Retrobird 👍 The one I never had that I always wanted was SMB3 - didn’t have an NES (UK C64 kid) and Mario’s third game was quite simply the best game I’d ever played in 1991 when my best friend got it. I didn’t have to wait long in a sense as 3 years later I got it on All Stars which was a slight anticlimax after the majestic Super Mario World; it would be another 25 years later that I finally got the Boxed NES version as the first in a rapidly expanding complete in box NES collection which is amazing to discover. Looking back it’s incredible what Nintendo did over 30 years ago - there are many games today that wish they were half as good as SMB3.
Wow thinking about all the games I wanted and still want takes me back. I remember when Toys R Us was still around. I used to be a hard-core pokemon fan and made sure I had an open slot for the new titles so I didn't miss out on the mainline titles. But I remembered games like super princess peach,kirby nightmare in dreamland or even pokemon ranger guardian signs ect. There were many games I didn't know even existed until I learned and yearned for the series like metroid. I've finally got a chance to go back and hunt the ones I wanted down like nightmare in dreamland. Even as an adult I still have a hard time keeping up with every game announced though I would say I have a far more solid collection for switch. It's just hard when you play multiple consoles. (Xbox ps4 and switch) I do love it alot though. Edit:Also so far I've watched a few of your videos and instantly felt quality pouring from them. Now I'm subbed!
I remember playing the NES as a kid at a summer camp but my mom didn’t want me to have a game system because it would rot my brain. I did get a Gameboy because my friend got a new one and gave me his old one when we moved. She couldn’t say no to that lol. It would be 6 years later when she finally let me have my first home console, the N64. Years later, my brain is still intact and I have a collection my younger self would envy.
How I got into retro gaming was getting what I wanted to get as a kid and then play it and realize sometimes....it was crap lol. I'm looking at you Superman on the Sega Genesis.....
It was the super nintendo/ super metroid. My friend down the street had the NES, SNES, and Genesis all hooked up to different tvs. He had super metroid and I begged my parents, but it was too expensive at the time. I finally bought and beat it last summer. Felt like it was 94 again.
I didn't really get a proper console (the Sega Master System) until I was 13. Prior to that, the only thing we had in our house that played videogames was a Pong console and then a Vic-20 when I was 9, but the Vic-20 was already around half a decade old at that point and had already been succeeded by the Commodore 64 whose graphics were far more impressive so, up to around 1987, I wanted a Commodore 64 and then a Commodore Amiga. For games, I got the Sega Master System version of OutRun for my 14th birthday. A few years later, I was aware that there was a Genesis version but I never saw it in stores. The Master System version was fine for the console but I wouldn't get to play a great version of the original OutRun arcade game at home until 2011, when I got OutRun 2 for the XBox which also had the original OutRun as an unlockable bonus. I still never got the Genesis version although now I can play it in-browser on emulation sites and it's... alright. The Genesis version does a decent job at faking scaling using multiple-sized sprites but it doesn't compare to the actual Super Scaler arcade game. A PC game I wanted when I was a teenager was Flight Assignment A.T.P./Airline Transport Pilot, which was, from what I understood from gaming magazines at the time, a full-featured airline flight simulator that came with a giant manual and all sorts of paper flight charts. I never saw it at Radio Shack or Compucentre (the Canadian equivalent of Babbage's), it was probably just too niche a flight sim compared to Microsoft Flight Simulator 3.0.
There were plenty of little known obscure NES games that I didn't get to play until later in life but I was immensely blessed! Even though I rarely got a new NES game, the ones I received were Mega Man 2 and 3, Blaster Master, and Tecmo Super Bowl. I got some GREAT games! I feel so sorry for anyone out there who ended up getting some really bad games such as Hydlide and Castlequest however.
I remember getting the first Ninja turtles game for NES when I was a kid. I remember it being expensive as it just came out, but my parent said I could pick 1 game. I was a big turtles fan. I played that game all the time and it was one of my top shellfers! My uncles would sell my dad NES games they didn’t like or want anymore. Luckily on my part we had stacks of games, but none of them felt like the ones I actually got to pick and buy new. However one day they brought over Mike Tyson Punch Out and it became my favorite NES game.
I remember getting Medal of Honor: Allied Assault for PC, but our home computer couldn’t run it. And I was crushed. So after getting a gaming PC as an adult, I knew I owed it to myself to purchase the game again and play the crap out of it. Which I did. :)
I’m very blessed that I was able to get pretty much every game I really wanted. The only ones that I “miss” and am not willing to pay the current asking prices are Earthbound, Little Samson and Gimmick for the Famicom. The rare stuff thankfully I got before it became crazy expensive (Twilight Princess Gamecube, Chrono Trigger, Bangai-O N64, Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow, the Zelda 1 famicom disk, Conker’s Bad Fur Day, Chibi-Robo, Xenoblade 2: Torna, the Golden Country, Worms Armageddon N64, and Celeste) so I’m glad I had the foresight to get that stuff sooner rather then later.
The only one I can think of off the top of my head is wanting Virtua Racing for my birthday and my parents got me Lotus II RECS instead. I mostly rented games and then bought them for cheap when the store was getting rid of them. I also tended to have older consoles growing up so I always got games from the bargain bin. It was rare I wanted a brand new full-price game as a kid so when I did want one for my birthday or Christmas I usually ended up getting it.
Great vid, I can definitely relate to this 😅. There are lots of games I really missed out, like Saturn Bomberman (a US copy anyways) and more recently a copy of Dust for the Switch. Going back though, I really wanted a NES, but never got one as a kid. Missing out initially on the original Zelda, Mario games, Metroid and all those awesome classics. I never did get a real NES, but the Virtual Console and NES Classic have done the trick for me.
Yeah you are spot on. As a kid my parents only got me two games a year, birthday and Christmas, but once I had really good grades and they git me a video game but that was just once. Funny enogh now with an 10 year old kid I get him no more than 3 games a year, Birthday, Christmas, and summer holiday. But then again he does have an allowance of between 50 to 80 bucks a month depending on his behavior so I am sure he gets games from that.
I never had TMNT Turtles in Time, any of the SNES Final Fantasy games, Chrono Trigger, Super Metroid, or Castlevania 4. A lot of top lists on the internet are thus different from my childhood top ten. It’s interesting to know that I missed out on a lot of the greatest SNES games of all time as a child. I’ve gone back and played them on the Wii and Switch though.
My birthday sometimes is on the same day as Easter but my parents always started to order the games on my birthday so I never got video games on the exact day of my birthday 😅 I remember my dad buying me a ps3 with sonic and all stars racing transformed on one of my birthdays. I've played the game a lot that day and I'm even replaying it from time to time.
I used to get games for my birthdays and Christmas but then I used to trade my games with the neighborhood kids so it keep the new games collection fresh
Renting games from video stores made it possible to play any game I technically “wanted” but didn’t own. And I was perfectly content with renting games like banjo kazooie over and over.
On another funnier note. Me, and my Dad were at KB Toys in the 90's. I wanted Zombies Ate My Neighbors for the Snes. He said no, because it sounds too violent. Instead he said I could have Ghoul Patrol. Little did he, or I know at the time he was buying me the sequel to the game he just said no to.
Fire Emblem : path of radiath. I a big gamecube and Jrpg and I got most game of the games that I wanted for as a child when I was a teenager; However, this games has always been outside of my wallet and it isn't the current retrogame market which will ease the things.
That's one of the few notable GameCube games that I actually didn't play at some point or another back while the Cube was current. I do have it now though.
Great video! I try to think... since it was some years ago that I was "that kid" it's hard to remember it all 100%. But I got the games that I wanted the most. And I remember that I got the games mainly on Xmas, bdays and so. Also remember that I was actually really happy with the games I had. I can at least tell one story/fact. I loved Mega Man soooo much! And for NES they (Capcom) made 6 games. I can only remember that I had games 1-3 or maybe 1-4. Now many years later I know that they made 6 games but that's not the full story. Where I live they only imported the 5 first games! So Mega Man 6 never got released here. Anyone who read this can understand how happy I am now that all 6 NES games got re-released for Switch (Mega Man Legacy Collection)! And also for other platforms. And another story: I saw news about these Final Fantasy games for NES/SNES in magazines. But the games never got released here. I wanted to play the games but couldn't. So I'm glad that at least a few of the games are on NES/SNES Classic Mini! So a summary: some of the games that I dreamed about - or didn't knew they existed - are games that I've got lately! My interest in video games has been a "come and go" thing over the years. So for example I never had a N64 because of that. Now I wish that I could travel back in time and get one with Super Mario 64, Ocarina Of Time, Majora's mask and more games. But luckely, I bought Super Mario 3D All Stars for Switch and these two Zelda games ported to 3DS. Many of the best games seems to get ported/remastered to future consoles.
I must have rented Gotcha Force for game cube every weekend for 2 months. No one knew how good it was.I didn't even own a game cube and has to stay at a friend's house to play it.
Jet Force Gemini. I remember being amazed at this huge colorful fantastical adventure as I would watch my friend's older brother play it. I wasn't allowed to own or even borrow T-rated games while I was under 13 years of age so there were some games I missed out on and this this was one of them. By the time I was 13 I had already moved onto GameCube so I never came back and got this or Goldeneye or FF7 or anything else 5th-gen.
when i got my first current console (I only had older used systems before) that felt like such a big deal. it was probably my most expensive gift and my parents, grandparents and one of my aunts put together the money for it
As a young retro gamer who grew up with the N64, sadly it was harder to find games in 2012 when I was 5…so I was stuck with my uncles old game taste, not a bad thing, he liked very fun games such as rampage universal tour, super Mario 64, ocarina of time, perfect dark, Mario Kart, some random sports games, and San Francisco RUSH. Later on I added more to that collection. Now I’m 13 and still have his original N64’s and what not. I like to use the Funtastic jungle green controller too, I also have the console but I use the charcoal Grey one instead. And a few games I really did want were games like Resident Evil 2 for the N64, Pokémon snap, Pokémon stadium and things like that. But now I have all of these and more…i have accumulated a SNES, my dads old NES, GameCube, Sega genesis (with rocket knight adventures) and a PS2 that plays PS1.
I wanted a Virtual Boy when I was 8 years old back in 1995. Over a thousand dollars and 25 years later as an adult and one year of waiting to refurbish it... I don't regret it. All hail the Virtual Boy!
I'm not a gamer but I can relate. As a kid I got usually what I wanted. As a college kid living with his parents, I'm in a half/half kinda situation. I ask for things sometimes I get it or I would buy it depending.
I think I was lucky. I had a lot of games that I wanted. I originally started out with a Genesis, and only Sonic 1. I think it was a year before I got anything else. I played it to death and still love it now. But somehow I ended up getting an SNES too - I think got the system and a few games for like $50 at a garage sale. Also I worked on farms during the summer, so I had money to buy games when they came out. My best Christmas memory ever was getting both Donkey Kong Country and whatever the newest Sonic game was at the time (Sonic and Knuckles?). Two games at once? It was a Christmas miracle! I always wanted a Game Boy though (with Tetris!). I missed that whole generation. When my friends had the NES, I was stuck with my dad’s old Intellivision. Ugh.
So glad you picked up this topic! Okay so rapid fire: Kingdom Hearts on PS2. Always heard about it finally can enjoy it Yoshi’s Story. Rented so much basically owned it. 1080 Snowboarding. Always passed it on the shelves don’t know why. Castlevania 4 and Super Ghouls and Ghosts. I feel like they never had copies available and I finally got them this year holy crap such a good challenge and transported me right back to SNES era. Croc on PS1, looked over it so many times had to get it this time. Secret of Mana. JRPGS I look on with envy. And for the hell of it one I still want, Conker’s Bad Fur Day
My mom made me pick out a game for my friend's birthday. I only had $15 to work with so it was looking like a tiger handheld but Werewolf for the NES was on sale so he got that. Whenever I went to his house after that I always wanted to play Werewolf!
I really enjoy your channel content. Got you a new subscriber! :D I always wanted the other Donkey Kong Country games as a kid, but I only had the original. Now I own them all!
For me it was the opposite. I owned 2 and 3, but not 1. Actually I was so blown away by the sequels that I didn't really need the original, but I was always curious about it. Now I own all three, of course, and yeah, the original is actually my least favorite, so I guess I was lucky enough as a kid
Biggest one from me was actually a whole console, the Sega Saturn. Only being able to rent it as a kid I was mesmerized. Was unusually giddy and excited to finally get a Japanese one as an adult and it still gets decent play.
The game I really wanted was super double dragon. My family only rented movies/games from videoland, but my friend James, his family would rent from blockbuster. When I went to spend the night at his house, we all went to blockbuster (it was a group of us boys spending the night). I kid you not, this was my first time in a blockbuster and it was as if it were another Chuck’e’cheese. My little brain was tweaking out from all the stimulus haha. We rented this game because we thought it would be so cool to play 2-player on it. Everyone thought it was too hard, but I found a new passion: turtles game (tmnt style). We didn’t have super double dragon at videoland, so I begged my father to switch to blockbuster (never happened). Then once I was 16, I finally saved up enough to get the game. Long story for randoms to read I know, but it felt good sharing.
One game I always wanted but never got as a kid was Ape Escape. I don't know why, but everything about it just looked so fun. I loved how it had all these gadgets and stuff. It looked so good. But never got it...until I got older and got my own pieces of paper I could use! So now I have the game and I have to play it at some point. I wonder if it'll hold up to how good I thought it looked. I also know what it's like to get burned on renting and renting, but never actually owning. I rented Chameleon Twist a few times and enjoyed it, so I do wish I had that game. Mischief Makers on the other hand, we must have rented that so much that it felt like we owned it, but we never did. I really hope to get my own Mischief Makers and try to beat that game. Chameleon Twist wasn't that hard, but even with how much more we rented it, I could never beat Mischief Makers. I also kept calling it "Making Mischief" for some reason.
Birthday, Christmas, and Report Card Day (and there were always 2 Report Card Days). My birthday is September 9, which was always the first day back at school. This always made my parents susceptible to agreeing to also get me a book in addition to a game...I have a rather large strategy guide collection.
Back in 1994 10yr old me rented Rocket Knight Adventures for my Mega Drive too many times to count. It was a proud day when I finally added it to my collection. 👍
As a kid I didn´t even get a console! I had my cousin´s old C64 and a box full of pirated games for it. One of my friends brother had a Mega Drive and I saw R-Type on it and it blew me away (I must say that the C64 version is quite decent in hindsight). I wished I had owned a Mega Drive back then. So in 99 or so I bought a bag full of MD on a fleamarket for about 15€. That was the foundation of my games collection. Next to the system it had about twenty classy games in it. So finally my wish had come true. I had the console I wanted. I was hooked.
I grew up with a single mother. I loved Marvel comics back then in the early 1990's. She kept buying me Marvel games for the NES, and that was one of the sole reasons I stopped using the NES. Anyone ever heard of LJN? They had the rights to Marvel for their games, and their games infamously were way too hard and darned near impossible to play. As a kid back then playing Spider Man I was lit up like the 4th of July until I realized after a couple of different times playing the game I couldn't even get past the first level of the game. My mother...... she worked her butt off for us and I'll be it she tried like crazy to give us what we wanted. I never even NOTICED the publisher of the Marvel games during the NES's hey day, but years later I remember finding this dude here on youtube called the LJN Defender gamer and I came to find out why my favorite comic book games were impossible to play for me back then..... THEY WERE ALL LJN, and they all were poorly made. HOWEVER.... and this is a BIG however...... in a way LJN redeemed themselves (slightly) with The Super Nintendo with Maximum Carnage, but alas AGAIN the game was too friggin' ridiculously hard to beat.... for me at least. So.... YEARS (I stress the YEARS) later I tried the game again, and nope..... still couldn't beat it. But hey.... that's what cheats are for. SCREW YOU LJN. Yeah.... make cheap games and I'll cheat through 'em. Buttholes..... !!!!
Man there were so many games I wanted to get when I was little. Unfortunately I mostly had to get nonviolent games, or "games you play for like 5 minutes and got bored because of the low quality." A few games I wanted to get, but was never able to find (for a decent price) was Mario Kart for the Wii and Mario Galaxy.
@@RetroBirdGaming Didn't get a chance to yet, however I managed to get my hands on Mario Galaxy 2 at some Gamestop a few months back. It was such a good game, and it only made me want to play Mario Galaxy even more. (I mean I have the 3D collection for Switch, but I want to play it on the original system. A game just feels better on the original.)
Man I remember always playing the Windwaker Demo at the Gamecube Kiosk at the store and yearning for it. Never did get to have it till later in my teen years.
You deserve much more recognition on this platform my friend, great video I remember really really wanting the Incredibles on the Ps2 for whatever reason and begged for it every holiday, birthday but never ended up getting it. And to this day I have no interest whatsoever in playing it xD
I always wanted an NES. Especially because of Mario 3. We had a Sega when I was a kid. It was awesome, but I always preferred Nintendo. Years later I saved up for a snes, got a N64 and around the time of the PS2, I finally got my original Nintendo with Mario at the age of about 19 or so. Funcoland still sold them and games were cheap!
I have been selling old games to get new games my entire life all the way back to atari 2600. When I got big into collecting the first thing was to get all the games I previously sold. That was wave one of collecting Once that was done I moved on to games my friends owned or that I rented alot that I wished I had owned but never did. Pretty much all of my Sega CD stuff and late genesis releases came in on this wave. Glad I did Next I moved on to games i discovered as an adult and never knew about. These I played on an emulator or everdrive and decided I want those too. Comix zone, duck takes 2, and rocket knight are some of those. I originally omitted arcade ports, but that was the last type of stuff I added in as late collecting wants. Eventually I wanted them too.
I never owned Mario Kart DS as a kid even though I got Double Dash and Wii when they were new. I remember borrowing the game from my cousin though. Now I own my own copy and it feels good.
I had a massive wish list I knew I'd never have back then. A Neo Geo AES, the TMNT arcade game, WWF Wrestlefest... I have a real TMNT jamma pcb I play in my 4 player Sunset Riders cabinet when I want now, as well as Wrestlefest. I have a Neo Geo AES and a little more than 30 games for it now, and a Neo Geo MVS cabinet to play the stuff that costs ungodly money on AES... I've been fortunate to buy a lot of stuff when it wasn't too pricey, but there are still some that are too pricey or hard to find. I probably won't get a Simpsons arcade board or cabinet. There are some of those Neo Geo games that I likely won't get legit copies of, and will have to settle for a multicart experience. Still, it's all fun, and nice to have things to still want as well, even if I never do have them. It gives you those "If I ever won the lottery..." thoughts (though I guess I'd have to actually buy lottery tickets to do that).
I was that SNES kid who always trash-talked the crummy Genesis. I just ordered a Mega Drive from Japan & now I can finally play MUSHA, Gaiares & Truxton like I wanted to from the second saw them in EGM back in the day.
@@davidgill7412 True, they dropped the ball on the mini not really looking like the big red. If you are willing to spend a bit more, the MVSX captures that look and feel and was pretty well reviewed. I know it’s not apples to apples with a mini console, but it’s something...
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The things I didn't get as a kid are the reasons I collect.
Totally!
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Brace yourselves. The alien isolation texture upscales are coming.
same here! I'm young so I never even knew of these old consoles as a kid, but now I can buy and experience these games in their original form!
Grateful to have been that kid whos parents, while not wealthy, worked hard and spent some of that money on games for us boys a few times a year. We didn't need good school results or to do chores just something to put smiles on our faces. Thanks mum and dad.
Even as an adult, you can't always get what you want.
But, if you try some times you might find, you get what you need.
Your descriptions of growing up as a gamer kid are so beautifully spot on. I love it!
Haha we all went through a lot of the same things!
I rarely got many games as a kid since my family didnt have much money. I made a list of what I wanted over the years, then bought them all when I actually had money.
This is still and continues to be one of the most thoughtful and funniest channel on TH-cam. Keep up the good work!
I'm one of those kids who got what they wanted most of the time. I got a Sega CD, Nintendo 64 etc. But I think one thing that was on my list was a Virtual Boy. We were at Kaybee Toys and they were clearanced down to $25 and I asked my mom for it and she said no :/ I eventually got one and it's just as awesome as I remember.
Man, the Virtual Boy had it rough. I can just see it looking back at you from the clearance bin with puppy dog eyes as your mom says "no".
So you’re the turd he’s taking about. Just kidding :)
My folks spoiled me pretty good. I remember they went on vacation to Las Vegas without me and instead of bringing back tacky souvenirs I got 4 NES games. Batman, Simon's Quest, Godzilla, and Friday the 13th. Some people might scoff at the quality of some of those titles, but I played and finished all of them. Great times.
It was pretty hard to receive a "bad game" as a kid. We were usually excited to get anything.
I loved Batman and Godzilla, those games are bad ass!! Great music and artwork.
I kept thinking when you were telling the story that you would be like "and I was the kid who shoved the other kid" hahahh
Hahah. I wanted to rent the game even though I already owned it. Chameleon Twist could wait :)
The game was Truxton and The other kid was named Mark...
I was always jealous of the kids who had birthdays in May/June because they would get a couple new games right as summer vacation started and would be gaming it up. I on the other hand usually blew through all my Christmas/Birthday money by then and would be stuck renting games for $6 a pop (usually the good games were always out of stock).
Ikr lol. My birthday is in early August, which in my state usually meant my birthday was right around school starting. Many times it was the official first day
Your commentary is always on point man! Starting conversations that really take me back to my childhood ☺️
Glad to hear it!
@@RetroBirdGaming You really do dude, it triggers memories I have forgotten. keep it up.
Besides rental stores, building a network of friends and/or cousins who also had games expanded the scope of your gaming experience.
Especially if they were willing to share.
Also very well timed as my youngest daughter’s birthday is tomorrow and she’s going to get her first ever video game - Animal Crossing New Horizon. Hope and expect she’ll treasure the memory of that for life.
I feel sorry for anyone with a birthday near Christmas.
I was one of those kids and... In reality it wasn't that bad. It meant I could get more presents in a short time, usually a game that I ended up loved and then something else (usually Lego related) :D
Also, I could have the possibility to "merge" them to get one big thing (like I did with the WiiU)
My youngest son was born December 27th... but he's autistics and non-verbal, and he's as happy as can be the moment you hand him a $3 hotwheels car. We get him a lot more presents than than on his birthday, but honestly he spends the whole day enjoying the very first toy (usually a car) that he opens.
@@will9357 Same as my little brother, except he's verbal. He was born on December 20th and he loves to play mario games, (especially the original). He's in Kindergarten and he could get to world 5 by himself! (With shortcuts) It's pretty sweet to hear your son loves hotwheels. I used to collect the toys, but unfortunately sold them in a garage sale.
@@antusFireNova You are lucky, if I was born around Christmas I would've gotten only 1 game, and probably would've had to beg my grandparents for more (since the only time I got a new game was my B-day or Christmas). It sounds like you had a fun time during Christmas at least. (any Lego building was fun to get :D)
Pikmin and Luigi’s Mansion. They were the only GameCube games I wanted as a kid but my parents did not want to buy the console. Somehow I did not realize that the Wii I had was backwards compatible.
I’m still looking for those games today.
Just wanted to give you some love from over here in England.
I watch most retro gaming channels but I think yours at the moment is the most unique, interesting and relatable.
Also, you’re genuinely funny mate 👍
Thank you! Glad to hear my humor still works over there haha. Thanks again and look forward to seeing you in future videos!
When I was a kid, my mom wouldn’t let me buy Castlevania 2 for Gameboy because she thought it was satanic. She saw the cover art and read the back of the package... It was a crushing feeling at that time.
If only she would have said that over Castlevania 2 on the NES, that way she would would have essentially saved you from a bit of a stinker! ;)
@@KindaCool Well, my brother had control over the NES so I rarely got to play it when I was younger. 😅
Over 5K subs now, congrats man! People are catching on to your channel. You deserve it Bird! Anyway, THE game I wanted as a kid was Illusion of Time on the SNES. Didn't get it for the longest time, rented it many times until I got a PS1 and THEN I find a second hand copy for $30 after I relegated the SNES to "too old". It still sits in a box at my Mothers house along with so many other SNES and NES games. Damn I wish she would let me have them all for my collection.
The TMNT games, Sonic 3 & Knuckles, Super Mario World, to name a few.
Mario Kart, Secret of Mana, Comix Zone
Aw man so many games I wanted but never got! Dude congrats on 5k plus! You are grinding!!
Thank you!
My brother came back from a friends house and talked about how he played Chibi Robo for the GameCube and how much he loved it.
I still haven’t played it, but hopefully the price goes down someday. :P
Hopefully. I may want to try that game out at some point too.
The absolute truth!! My childhood sounds just like yours. You felt like you won the lottery getting a can of pop from the store. But those birthdays and Christmas holidays wow!!
Hahah exactly!
When I got Super Smash Bros Brawl and 2 years later Smash on the 3DS :D
As a kid and into my 20s, I never really had many games. I don't think I ever had more than 10 at a time. But, that really made me enjoy what I had. There was no backlog then.
Yep we had an SNES and only I think 10 games. Gameboy the same. These a little longer an there but with my brother together I think around 40 games... But everybody had games the other didn't like.
I can't think of any games I wanted but never got. Two games that I really wanted but took me forever to find was Mega Man 2 for the NES and Super Mario RPG. This was the days before ebay so you had to actually pick up the phone, call the game store, and (gasp) actually talk to someone.
I remember those days of calling up stores. I did that quite a few times :)
I wanted to get Rule of Rose as a teenager, but sadly I was a little too young and my mom said "When you grow up you'll get it". Now look at the price on ebay and your wallet is going to scream lol.
Ya, that game looks really cool, would like to see a port of it on a new console.
Wow this takes me back! We had a mom and pop video store in our town and didnt get a Blockbuster til the 360/PS3 era. Around 7 or 8 years old I was allowed to rent games with my allowance. Our local store was the same way, 1 copy of each game, so anything new, you may not get to play for months unless birthday or Christmas was near and I could ask for it. If it was a hot new game, you could count on no one to return it the day they were supposed to, and it was a headache most of the time. But still great memories none the less.
I saw screenshots for Doki! Doki! Yuuenchi in a magazine when I was 8. It had an Western title in the book (Crazy Crazy Amusement Park or something). I wanted that game for years, and searched for it hard as an adult. I had no idea what it was called, and only knew there was a character who kicked soccer balls at enemies. Needless to say, the search took forever with that limited memory.
I finally found it recently. It never actually came to the US so I had to get the Famicom cart. In all of my days as a retro gamer, the moment I was able to finally play that game was probably the best.
I am so close to beating Splatterhouse 3, I got that game when I was young and I never ever beat it. I’m 31 and the challenge is still on lol
The primary game I wanted was Secret of Mana. My older brother (who lived on his own) had it, and I absolutely loved playing the game when I visited him. I asked for the game for birthdays and Christmases year after year, but the game was notoriously rare at that point, so it was never found. Around 2010, I found a CIB near-mint copy of it in a second-hand shop for 35 bucks. You better believe I jumped on that.
Honorable mention goes to Chrono Trigger, but I worked my butt off as a kid to earn some extra cash and bought my own copy of it in 1997.
Retro Bird new video Tuesday -- THE BEST! Another fun one.
Thanks. Glad you liked it!
From NES-era one game comes to mind: Bubble Bobble, I loved that game and it was usually available in rental stores (I live in Finland, northern Europe, btw) but being an old release even at that time... I don't know... about 1990, we never found any on the stores to buy.
It was more of a problem of availability more than lack of money to purchase it.
Another story is related to so-called "console wars"... me and my buddy in school didn't have that. I owned SNES and he had Megadrive (Europe, remember?). We were both huge ice hockey fans when we were about 12-16 years old (side note: Finland is a three time World Cup Champion plus lots of success in other tournaments like Olympics and U18 & U20 championships!)
But back to games: I played my Marios and Zeldas at SNES but when we were playing hockey game, we always turned on Megadrive's version of NHL. It was just so much smoother that I never bothered to even buy any of those on my SNES. I borrowed an SNES-version of NHL '95 from another buddy from time to time but never really wanted to own it... despite it being a solid game in it's own right.
Growing up I only got to own Nintendo handhelds and so I missed out on a lot of games on the GameCube. I also happen to be a lifelong Pokemon fan and played every mainline game in the series but I never got a chance to play the GameCube ones. However recently I finally got my hands on a copy of Colosseum and completed it for the first time. It was basically a dream come true since I had wanted to play it for 15 plus years. My happiness is immeasurable and my day is made.
Yoshi’s Island on the SNES for me! I remember looking at the box art in a local shop but it never reduced in price and was always £49.99. I finally got it and it’s still probably one of my favourite gaming memories. In my late thirties and I still play it to this day
It's a beautiful game. Timeless
I lived in a big house with extended family, plenty of them worked and our folks made certain I would too. Plus they tossed us a coin every now and then.
When I moved in with them actually the first thing they did was show me how and where to recycle cans! I was shocked at how much money could be made from doing that alone, at the time. So there were plenty of odd jobs (snow shoveling, leaf raking and so on), summer jobs, birthdays and moneys between us. I didn’t own every game I played (I was the sole owner of the under powered and unimpressive Game Boy in my house hold! Ha!) but I didn’t miss a thing until I got older and moved out.
Our tastes would stay the same but the fluidity of content sharing would get lost. I definitely missed out on a lot of gen 6 and up games as an adult!
Great Stuff! As always!
Easy, i wanted little Samson, and then the price jump.
Update: I stand corrected from my last comment. It was 3 days, rather than a week you would hit 5k, congrats!
Yeah, Little Samson went wild. Thank you! I appreciate it :)
I loved the story about the two kids chasing after Majora's Mask! I rented games a ton as a kid because I only got them once or twice a year like you! Thankfully our Marsh Supermarket always kept extra copies of some of the popular games and I remember them eventually having a ton of Super Mario Brothers 3 copies since it was such a megahit.
Funny you mentioned majoras mask cus that was the first thing that came to mind for me. It was always rented out at my blockbuster too, managed to get my hands on it once and was just getting into it when it came time to return it. I begged my parents to just buy it for me but they would not 😔
Of course I own it now but I can’t help but feel like I would have appreciated having it more back then
Oh, for sure. A game like that is tough to just rent.
As far as video games, definitely remember GTA Vice City being high on my list of doomed hopefuls when I was around 10. But I'll go for an even stronger reaction I always felt whenever my mom actually wandered into the games section at Wal-Mart with me in tow. Peering through those glass displays, behind the big shiny keyhole locks just to see a row of marvelous Gameboy Color colors was so tempting. Like picking out electronic ice cream flavors. And I actually had the purple transparent GBC, but always preferred the look of plastic on the solid color ones (the lime one just popped).
To this day I love the look and feel of a GBC, and even the packaging. Backlight be damned
When I had my first Saturn, I wanted Panzer Dragoon Saga. But now I... still don't have it and likely never will, for obvious reasons.
I didn't know about video games untill i was 8. Mainly due to me just playing outside alot and never got to see the tv as much. I remember around 1997 that i just randomly gotten an nes. I was hooked on mario bros 3. So i was very late in the gaming world back then, i missed out on a ton of things.
@05:20 : i know i was the minority , but as a kid(13-14) i loved going to my friend's house and just watch him play videogames on a DOS PC.
Lemmings ,Double Dragon , Sensible Soccer , Prince of Persia , Rick Dangerous ,Prehistoric , Blues Brothers , Titus the Fox and many more.
*I never felt the need to play those games myself* (perhaps that's because my friend was so good while playing them and i couldn't play as well as he did) and each time my friend was promting me to sit and play , usually ,after few minutes i was telling him to sit back and play !!
I loved to just sit and watch him playing those games !! these were my best hours of the day back then !!
I have never seen, or heard anything as crazy as what you saw those kids do in the rental store. Sounds like they really needed to chill, but being kids, of course not lol.
Congrats on 5K! Already making them moves up to 6K. There were tons of NES games I wanted and never got, but the first Zelda was one that stands out. I got Zelda II for Xmas one year instead of the first one because I had beaten it once (borrowed from a friend), so my mom thought the sequel would be nice.... I appreciated her actually thinking about games, but damn I was crying on the inside. I know there are Zelda II fans out there, but damn... when you want to play the original, Zelda II does not quench the thirst.
Thanks. Yeah, Zelda II has it's fans but it's a departure from the first game.
I was able to get basically all I asked for, but had to wait until my birthday and Christmas. I remember a game in my Easter basket maybe twice. Renting games was a different story. I remember being able to rent games twice. Other than that I was told I had to wait. I guess renting was extra money they didn't want to spend.
Honestly, I'm more bummed out now looking back at games I never knew about growing up in the 80s and 90s.
Ahh, I see. You could get whatever you wanted but not whenever you wanted them. That probably helped cut down on a lot of impulse requests.
@@RetroBirdGaming I did get a lot less than I may make it sound like I got yes. But I got most of what I knew I'd enjoy. I was happy enough with that. A couple I wish I knew about are Super Double Dragon and TMNT 4.
TMNT 3 the Manhattan project on the NES. One of my best friends at the time had an nes (I had a genesis) and we used to rent it all the time, we were probably 5-6 years old. When I was 12 or 13 I saved up my money and bought a used nes and a copy of that game at funcoland. That was a great day.
Great video, just wanted to mention that even though there were plenty of games I wanted when I was younger, those were special times back in the day where I’d go to a friends house and enjoy the games they had and vice versa. We would always be excited when either of us got something new, it was like a shared game collection.
Great video again Retrobird 👍 The one I never had that I always wanted was SMB3 - didn’t have an NES (UK C64 kid) and Mario’s third game was quite simply the best game I’d ever played in 1991 when my best friend got it. I didn’t have to wait long in a sense as 3 years later I got it on All Stars which was a slight anticlimax after the majestic Super Mario World; it would be another 25 years later that I finally got the Boxed NES version as the first in a rapidly expanding complete in box NES collection which is amazing to discover. Looking back it’s incredible what Nintendo did over 30 years ago - there are many games today that wish they were half as good as SMB3.
Wow thinking about all the games I wanted and still want takes me back.
I remember when Toys R Us was still around.
I used to be a hard-core pokemon fan and made sure I had an open slot for the new titles so I didn't miss out on the mainline titles.
But I remembered games like super princess peach,kirby nightmare in dreamland or even pokemon ranger guardian signs ect.
There were many games I didn't know even existed until I learned and yearned for the series like metroid.
I've finally got a chance to go back and hunt the ones I wanted down like nightmare in dreamland.
Even as an adult I still have a hard time keeping up with every game announced though I would say I have a far more solid collection for switch.
It's just hard when you play multiple consoles. (Xbox ps4 and switch)
I do love it alot though.
Edit:Also so far I've watched a few of your videos and instantly felt quality pouring from them. Now I'm subbed!
Thanks! Glad to have you as part of the channel. Also glad that you were able to go back and play some of those games you missed.
I remember playing the NES as a kid at a summer camp but my mom didn’t want me to have a game system because it would rot my brain.
I did get a Gameboy because my friend got a new one and gave me his old one when we moved. She couldn’t say no to that lol.
It would be 6 years later when she finally let me have my first home console, the N64.
Years later, my brain is still intact and I have a collection my younger self would envy.
How I got into retro gaming was getting what I wanted to get as a kid and then play it and realize sometimes....it was crap lol. I'm looking at you Superman on the Sega Genesis.....
I did receive a video game on Easter once. It was Super Mario Land Two. The only reason was because Mario had bunny ears on the box, lol
It was the super nintendo/ super metroid. My friend down the street had the NES, SNES, and Genesis all hooked up to different tvs. He had super metroid and I begged my parents, but it was too expensive at the time. I finally bought and beat it last summer. Felt like it was 94 again.
Nice! I beat that game as an older adult and absolutely loved it.
I didn't really get a proper console (the Sega Master System) until I was 13. Prior to that, the only thing we had in our house that played videogames was a Pong console and then a Vic-20 when I was 9, but the Vic-20 was already around half a decade old at that point and had already been succeeded by the Commodore 64 whose graphics were far more impressive so, up to around 1987, I wanted a Commodore 64 and then a Commodore Amiga.
For games, I got the Sega Master System version of OutRun for my 14th birthday. A few years later, I was aware that there was a Genesis version but I never saw it in stores. The Master System version was fine for the console but I wouldn't get to play a great version of the original OutRun arcade game at home until 2011, when I got OutRun 2 for the XBox which also had the original OutRun as an unlockable bonus. I still never got the Genesis version although now I can play it in-browser on emulation sites and it's... alright. The Genesis version does a decent job at faking scaling using multiple-sized sprites but it doesn't compare to the actual Super Scaler arcade game.
A PC game I wanted when I was a teenager was Flight Assignment A.T.P./Airline Transport Pilot, which was, from what I understood from gaming magazines at the time, a full-featured airline flight simulator that came with a giant manual and all sorts of paper flight charts. I never saw it at Radio Shack or Compucentre (the Canadian equivalent of Babbage's), it was probably just too niche a flight sim compared to Microsoft Flight Simulator 3.0.
There were plenty of little known obscure NES games that I didn't get to play until later in life but I was immensely blessed! Even though I rarely got a new NES game, the ones I received were Mega Man 2 and 3, Blaster Master, and Tecmo Super Bowl. I got some GREAT games! I feel so sorry for anyone out there who ended up getting some really bad games such as Hydlide and Castlequest however.
I remember getting the first Ninja turtles game for NES when I was a kid. I remember it being expensive as it just came out, but my parent said I could pick 1 game. I was a big turtles fan. I played that game all the time and it was one of my top shellfers!
My uncles would sell my dad NES games they didn’t like or want anymore. Luckily on my part we had stacks of games, but none of them felt like the ones I actually got to pick and buy new. However one day they brought over Mike Tyson Punch Out and it became my favorite NES game.
My birthday being in July really helped with a solid almost 6 month gap as a kid to get games on a nice schedule.
I remember getting Medal of Honor: Allied Assault for PC, but our home computer couldn’t run it. And I was crushed. So after getting a gaming PC as an adult, I knew I owed it to myself to purchase the game again and play the crap out of it. Which I did. :)
I’m very blessed that I was able to get pretty much every game I really wanted. The only ones that I “miss” and am not willing to pay the current asking prices are Earthbound, Little Samson and Gimmick for the Famicom. The rare stuff thankfully I got before it became crazy expensive (Twilight Princess Gamecube, Chrono Trigger, Bangai-O N64, Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow, the Zelda 1 famicom disk, Conker’s Bad Fur Day, Chibi-Robo, Xenoblade 2: Torna, the Golden Country, Worms Armageddon N64, and Celeste) so I’m glad I had the foresight to get that stuff sooner rather then later.
Yeah, that's a lot of good stuff!
The only one I can think of off the top of my head is wanting Virtua Racing for my birthday and my parents got me Lotus II RECS instead. I mostly rented games and then bought them for cheap when the store was getting rid of them. I also tended to have older consoles growing up so I always got games from the bargain bin. It was rare I wanted a brand new full-price game as a kid so when I did want one for my birthday or Christmas I usually ended up getting it.
Earthbound. Yeah not paying for that game now! I played it a lot at a friends house as he had the SNES I had the SEGA.
Luckily, it's available a whole bunch of different ways nowadays.
Great vid, I can definitely relate to this 😅. There are lots of games I really missed out, like Saturn Bomberman (a US copy anyways) and more recently a copy of Dust for the Switch. Going back though, I really wanted a NES, but never got one as a kid. Missing out initially on the original Zelda, Mario games, Metroid and all those awesome classics. I never did get a real NES, but the Virtual Console and NES Classic have done the trick for me.
Yeah you are spot on. As a kid my parents only got me two games a year, birthday and Christmas, but once I had really good grades and they git me a video game but that was just once. Funny enogh now with an 10 year old kid I get him no more than 3 games a year, Birthday, Christmas, and summer holiday. But then again he does have an allowance of between 50 to 80 bucks a month depending on his behavior so I am sure he gets games from that.
I never had TMNT Turtles in Time, any of the SNES Final Fantasy games, Chrono Trigger, Super Metroid, or Castlevania 4. A lot of top lists on the internet are thus different from my childhood top ten. It’s interesting to know that I missed out on a lot of the greatest SNES games of all time as a child. I’ve gone back and played them on the Wii and Switch though.
Yeah, that's a lot of big names. Interesting.
this channel needs more subs
Know the feeling. Always wanted to play Voodoo Vince when I was a kid. Bought an OG Xbox a few years ago JUST for that game. Not disappointed.
My birthday sometimes is on the same day as Easter but my parents always started to order the games on my birthday so I never got video games on the exact day of my birthday 😅
I remember my dad buying me a ps3 with sonic and all stars racing transformed on one of my birthdays. I've played the game a lot that day and I'm even replaying it from time to time.
I used to get games for my birthdays and Christmas but then I used to trade my games with the neighborhood kids so it keep the new games collection fresh
Renting games from video stores made it possible to play any game I technically “wanted” but didn’t own. And I was perfectly content with renting games like banjo kazooie over and over.
On another funnier note. Me, and my Dad were at KB Toys in the 90's. I wanted Zombies Ate My Neighbors for the Snes. He said no, because it sounds too violent. Instead he said I could have Ghoul Patrol. Little did he, or I know at the time he was buying me the sequel to the game he just said no to.
Fire Emblem : path of radiath. I a big gamecube and Jrpg and I got most game of the games that I wanted for as a child when I was a teenager; However, this games has always been outside of my wallet and it isn't the current retrogame market which will ease the things.
That's one of the few notable GameCube games that I actually didn't play at some point or another back while the Cube was current. I do have it now though.
Great video! I try to think... since it was some years ago that I was "that kid" it's hard to remember it all 100%. But I got the games that I wanted the most. And I remember that I got the games mainly on Xmas, bdays and so. Also remember that I was actually really happy with the games I had.
I can at least tell one story/fact. I loved Mega Man soooo much! And for NES they (Capcom) made 6 games. I can only remember that I had games 1-3 or maybe 1-4. Now many years later I know that they made 6 games but that's not the full story. Where I live they only imported the 5 first games! So Mega Man 6 never got released here. Anyone who read this can understand how happy I am now that all 6 NES games got re-released for Switch (Mega Man Legacy Collection)! And also for other platforms.
And another story: I saw news about these Final Fantasy games for NES/SNES in magazines. But the games never got released here. I wanted to play the games but couldn't. So I'm glad that at least a few of the games are on NES/SNES Classic Mini!
So a summary: some of the games that I dreamed about - or didn't knew they existed - are games that I've got lately!
My interest in video games has been a "come and go" thing over the years. So for example I never had a N64 because of that. Now I wish that I could travel back in time and get one with Super Mario 64, Ocarina Of Time, Majora's mask and more games. But luckely, I bought Super Mario 3D All Stars for Switch and these two Zelda games ported to 3DS. Many of the best games seems to get ported/remastered to future consoles.
He’s the retro bird yeah and he’s talking about video games. It’s been in my head for days lol.
So long as it's not the irritating kind of stuck in your head.
@@RetroBirdGaming it’s a catchy tune and the good kind. love your content, please keep it coming.
@@RetroBirdGaming it's not irritating, it's relaxing 😏
I must have rented Gotcha Force for game cube every weekend for 2 months. No one knew how good it was.I didn't even own a game cube and has to stay at a friend's house to play it.
Jet Force Gemini. I remember being amazed at this huge colorful fantastical adventure as I would watch my friend's older brother play it. I wasn't allowed to own or even borrow T-rated games while I was under 13 years of age so there were some games I missed out on and this this was one of them. By the time I was 13 I had already moved onto GameCube so I never came back and got this or Goldeneye or FF7 or anything else 5th-gen.
That's one of those odd games I actually owned as a kid. Loved playing it.
when i got my first current console (I only had older used systems before) that felt like such a big deal. it was probably my most expensive gift and my parents, grandparents and one of my aunts put together the money for it
As a young retro gamer who grew up with the N64, sadly it was harder to find games in 2012 when I was 5…so I was stuck with my uncles old game taste, not a bad thing, he liked very fun games such as rampage universal tour, super Mario 64, ocarina of time, perfect dark, Mario Kart, some random sports games, and San Francisco RUSH. Later on I added more to that collection. Now I’m 13 and still have his original N64’s and what not. I like to use the Funtastic jungle green controller too, I also have the console but I use the charcoal Grey one instead. And a few games I really did want were games like Resident Evil 2 for the N64, Pokémon snap, Pokémon stadium and things like that. But now I have all of these and more…i have accumulated a SNES, my dads old NES, GameCube, Sega genesis (with rocket knight adventures) and a PS2 that plays PS1.
I wanted a Virtual Boy when I was 8 years old back in 1995. Over a thousand dollars and 25 years later as an adult and one year of waiting to refurbish it... I don't regret it.
All hail the Virtual Boy!
I'm not a gamer but I can relate. As a kid I got usually what I wanted. As a college kid living with his parents, I'm in a half/half kinda situation. I ask for things sometimes I get it or I would buy it depending.
I think I was lucky. I had a lot of games that I wanted. I originally started out with a Genesis, and only Sonic 1. I think it was a year before I got anything else. I played it to death and still love it now.
But somehow I ended up getting an SNES too - I think got the system and a few games for like $50 at a garage sale. Also I worked on farms during the summer, so I had money to buy games when they came out.
My best Christmas memory ever was getting both Donkey Kong Country and whatever the newest Sonic game was at the time (Sonic and Knuckles?). Two games at once? It was a Christmas miracle!
I always wanted a Game Boy though (with Tetris!). I missed that whole generation. When my friends had the NES, I was stuck with my dad’s old Intellivision. Ugh.
So glad you picked up this topic! Okay so rapid fire:
Kingdom Hearts on PS2. Always heard about it finally can enjoy it
Yoshi’s Story. Rented so much basically owned it.
1080 Snowboarding. Always passed it on the shelves don’t know why.
Castlevania 4 and Super Ghouls and Ghosts. I feel like they never had copies available and I finally got them this year holy crap such a good challenge and transported me right back to SNES era.
Croc on PS1, looked over it so many times had to get it this time.
Secret of Mana. JRPGS I look on with envy.
And for the hell of it one I still want, Conker’s Bad Fur Day
My mom made me pick out a game for my friend's birthday. I only had $15 to work with so it was looking like a tiger handheld but Werewolf for the NES was on sale so he got that. Whenever I went to his house after that I always wanted to play Werewolf!
I really enjoy your channel content. Got you a new subscriber! :D I always wanted the other Donkey Kong Country games as a kid, but I only had the original. Now I own them all!
I own the trilogy now as well!
For me it was the opposite. I owned 2 and 3, but not 1. Actually I was so blown away by the sequels that I didn't really need the original, but I was always curious about it. Now I own all three, of course, and yeah, the original is actually my least favorite, so I guess I was lucky enough as a kid
Biggest one from me was actually a whole console, the Sega Saturn. Only being able to rent it as a kid I was mesmerized. Was unusually giddy and excited to finally get a Japanese one as an adult and it still gets decent play.
The game I really wanted was super double dragon. My family only rented movies/games from videoland, but my friend James, his family would rent from blockbuster.
When I went to spend the night at his house, we all went to blockbuster (it was a group of us boys spending the night). I kid you not, this was my first time in a blockbuster and it was as if it were another Chuck’e’cheese. My little brain was tweaking out from all the stimulus haha.
We rented this game because we thought it would be so cool to play 2-player on it. Everyone thought it was too hard, but I found a new passion: turtles game (tmnt style).
We didn’t have super double dragon at videoland, so I begged my father to switch to blockbuster (never happened). Then once I was 16, I finally saved up enough to get the game. Long story for randoms to read I know, but it felt good sharing.
One game I always wanted but never got as a kid was Ape Escape. I don't know why, but everything about it just looked so fun. I loved how it had all these gadgets and stuff. It looked so good. But never got it...until I got older and got my own pieces of paper I could use! So now I have the game and I have to play it at some point. I wonder if it'll hold up to how good I thought it looked.
I also know what it's like to get burned on renting and renting, but never actually owning. I rented Chameleon Twist a few times and enjoyed it, so I do wish I had that game. Mischief Makers on the other hand, we must have rented that so much that it felt like we owned it, but we never did. I really hope to get my own Mischief Makers and try to beat that game. Chameleon Twist wasn't that hard, but even with how much more we rented it, I could never beat Mischief Makers. I also kept calling it "Making Mischief" for some reason.
Birthday, Christmas, and Report Card Day (and there were always 2 Report Card Days). My birthday is September 9, which was always the first day back at school. This always made my parents susceptible to agreeing to also get me a book in addition to a game...I have a rather large strategy guide collection.
Back in 1994 10yr old me rented Rocket Knight Adventures for my Mega Drive too many times to count. It was a proud day when I finally added it to my collection. 👍
As a kid I didn´t even get a console! I had my cousin´s old C64 and a box full of pirated games for it. One of my friends brother had a Mega Drive and I saw R-Type on it and it blew me away (I must say that the C64 version is quite decent in hindsight). I wished I had owned a Mega Drive back then. So in 99 or so I bought a bag full of MD on a fleamarket for about 15€. That was the foundation of my games collection. Next to the system it had about twenty classy games in it. So finally my wish had come true. I had the console I wanted. I was hooked.
I grew up with a single mother. I loved Marvel comics back then in the early 1990's. She kept buying me Marvel games for the NES, and that was one of the sole reasons I stopped using the NES. Anyone ever heard of LJN? They had the rights to Marvel for their games, and their games infamously were way too hard and darned near impossible to play. As a kid back then playing Spider Man I was lit up like the 4th of July until I realized after a couple of different times playing the game I couldn't even get past the first level of the game.
My mother...... she worked her butt off for us and I'll be it she tried like crazy to give us what we wanted. I never even NOTICED the publisher of the Marvel games during the NES's hey day, but years later I remember finding this dude here on youtube called the LJN Defender gamer and I came to find out why my favorite comic book games were impossible to play for me back then..... THEY WERE ALL LJN, and they all were poorly made.
HOWEVER.... and this is a BIG however...... in a way LJN redeemed themselves (slightly) with The Super Nintendo with Maximum Carnage, but alas AGAIN the game was too friggin' ridiculously hard to beat.... for me at least. So.... YEARS (I stress the YEARS) later I tried the game again, and nope..... still couldn't beat it. But hey.... that's what cheats are for.
SCREW YOU LJN. Yeah.... make cheap games and I'll cheat through 'em. Buttholes..... !!!!
Man there were so many games I wanted to get when I was little. Unfortunately I mostly had to get nonviolent games, or "games you play for like 5 minutes and got bored because of the low quality." A few games I wanted to get, but was never able to find (for a decent price) was Mario Kart for the Wii and Mario Galaxy.
Mario Galaxy is fantastic. Hopefully you were able to eventually play it at some point.
@@RetroBirdGaming Didn't get a chance to yet, however I managed to get my hands on Mario Galaxy 2 at some Gamestop a few months back. It was such a good game, and it only made me want to play Mario Galaxy even more. (I mean I have the 3D collection for Switch, but I want to play it on the original system. A game just feels better on the original.)
Man I remember always playing the Windwaker Demo at the Gamecube Kiosk at the store and yearning for it. Never did get to have it till later in my teen years.
I remember playing that game on a kiosk as well! It must've been around.
@@RetroBirdGaming Most definitely. This was one of those cases where I wanted a game really badly for a system I didn't own
Man, we badly need a long play version of your outro song!!!
My friend who sings it has considered it!
@@RetroBirdGaming yes go for it!
You deserve much more recognition on this platform my friend, great video
I remember really really wanting the Incredibles on the Ps2 for whatever reason and begged for it every holiday, birthday but never ended up getting it. And to this day I have no interest whatsoever in playing it xD
Thank you my friend! For now, having good folks like yourself watching is enough for me :)
Grand tourismo 1+2... Never had a playstation, still rocked on the snes. Instead a pc. First only a family one.
I always wanted an NES. Especially because of Mario 3. We had a Sega when I was a kid. It was awesome, but I always preferred Nintendo.
Years later I saved up for a snes, got a N64 and around the time of the PS2, I finally got my original Nintendo with Mario at the age of about 19 or so. Funcoland still sold them and games were cheap!
I have been selling old games to get new games my entire life all the way back to atari 2600. When I got big into collecting the first thing was to get all the games I previously sold. That was wave one of collecting
Once that was done I moved on to games my friends owned or that I rented alot that I wished I had owned but never did. Pretty much all of my Sega CD stuff and late genesis releases came in on this wave. Glad I did
Next I moved on to games i discovered as an adult and never knew about. These I played on an emulator or everdrive and decided I want those too. Comix zone, duck takes 2, and rocket knight are some of those.
I originally omitted arcade ports, but that was the last type of stuff I added in as late collecting wants. Eventually I wanted them too.
I never owned Mario Kart DS as a kid even though I got Double Dash and Wii when they were new. I remember borrowing the game from my cousin though. Now I own my own copy and it feels good.
I had a massive wish list I knew I'd never have back then. A Neo Geo AES, the TMNT arcade game, WWF Wrestlefest... I have a real TMNT jamma pcb I play in my 4 player Sunset Riders cabinet when I want now, as well as Wrestlefest. I have a Neo Geo AES and a little more than 30 games for it now, and a Neo Geo MVS cabinet to play the stuff that costs ungodly money on AES... I've been fortunate to buy a lot of stuff when it wasn't too pricey, but there are still some that are too pricey or hard to find. I probably won't get a Simpsons arcade board or cabinet. There are some of those Neo Geo games that I likely won't get legit copies of, and will have to settle for a multicart experience. Still, it's all fun, and nice to have things to still want as well, even if I never do have them. It gives you those "If I ever won the lottery..." thoughts (though I guess I'd have to actually buy lottery tickets to do that).
I gave up on collecting for my MVS years ago. I can only imagine the AES.
(joke)
the game I always wanted but never got was Hotel Mario 2.
Years later, I've finally got the game and played it... it was beautiful.
A truly special experience!
I was that SNES kid who always trash-talked the crummy Genesis. I just ordered a Mega Drive from Japan & now I can finally play MUSHA, Gaiares & Truxton like I wanted to from the second saw them in EGM back in the day.
All right. Those are great shoot 'em ups!
Like most our age(ish), any game I get for the Neo Geo is a childhood dream come true...
Wait you actually had one?! I had really generous grandparents, but not generous enough to get me a $700 system with games that cost $100-$200.
@@davidgill7412 No, but I do own one now! That’s why it’s my childhood dream finally coming true. :)
@@KindaCool Awesome! I was really hoping that they would release a Neo Geo AVS mini console. The MVS mini doesn't resemble the US arcade cabinet.
@@davidgill7412 True, they dropped the ball on the mini not really looking like the big red. If you are willing to spend a bit more, the MVSX captures that look and feel and was pretty well reviewed. I know it’s not apples to apples with a mini console, but it’s something...